Learning to practise : professional education in historical and contemporary perspective / edited by Ruby Heap, Wyn Millar and Elizabeth Smyth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heap, Ruby.

Smyth, Elizabeth M. (Elizabeth Marian), 1954-

Millar, Wyn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Professional education--Canada--History.

Professional education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (120 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In August 1880, businessman Adrian Jakobsen convinced eight Inuit men, women, and children from Hebron and Nakvak, Labrador to accompany him to Europe to be ""exhibited"" in zoos and Völkerschauen (ethnographic shows). Abraham, Maria, Noggasak, Paingo, Sara, Terrianiak, Tobias, and Ulrike agreed, partly for the money and partly out of curiosity to see the wonders of Europe, which they had heard about from Moravian missionaries. The Inuit arrived in the fall of 1880 and were much talked and written about in the local press. Meanwhile, the Moravian missionaries, who had begg

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Glossary; Abraham's Diary and Letters; Moravian Letters and Documents; Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung; Magdeburgische Zeitung; Neue Preussische Zeitung; Frankfurter Nachrichten; ""Eskimos at the Berlin Zoo""; Appendix A: Abraham's Diary and Inuit Autobiography; Appendix B: German Contexts; Appendix C: Moravian Mission in Hebron, 2002; Bibliography; About Hartmut Lutz, Alootook Ipellie, and Hans-Ludwig Blohm

Notes:

Translated from the German.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613667410

9781280690471

128069047X

9780776617084

0776617087

OCLC:

742332966